Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Early Days
- Chapter 2 Washington Heights
- Chapter 3 Speyer School for Gifted Children
- Chapter 4 New York University at University Heights
- Chapter 5 To Each His Farthest Star–A Medical Student at Rochester: 1929–1934
- Chapter 6 Duke University Hospital and Its Medical School, 1934–1935
- Chapter 7 Yale Medical School, 1935–1936
- Chapter 8 Return to Duke, 1936-1937
- Chapter 9 You Can Go Home Again
- Chapter 10 My One and Only Wife
- Chapter 11 The Bronx Is the Graveyard for Specialists, 1937
- Chapter 12 The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1937 — The First of Its Kind
- Chapter 13 Pearl Harbor and World War II
- Chapter 14 Valley Forge General Hospital, 1942–1945
- Chapter 15 Tinian, 1945
- Chapter 16 Saipan, 1945–1946
- Chapter 17 Return to Columbia-Presbyterian, 1946
- Chapter 18 The Changing of the Guard at the Medical Center
- Chapter 19 An Internist-Diagnostician Rebuilds His Practice
- Chapter 20 The Upjohn Grand Rounds
- Chapter 21 The Iceman Cometh to Park Avenue
- Chapter 22 Songs My Patients Taught Me
- Chapter 23 Mr. J. Peter Grace, Chairman of W. R. Grace and Company
- Chapter 24 Birth of the Upjohn Gastrointestinal Service
- Chapter 25 Roosevelt Hospital, 1962–1965
- Chapter 26 Consultant and Physician to President Herbert C. Hoover
- Chapter 27 Problems at Roosevelt Hospital: The Bête Noir of Full Time
- Chapter 28 Internal Medicine as a Vocation (1897)
- Chapter 29 The Upjohn Service Moves to St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Chapter 30 Helicobacter Pylori and Peptic Ulcer: A Revolution in Gastroenterology
- Chapter 31 Plasmapheresis for Hepatic Coma at St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Epilogue
- Endmatter
Chapter 29 - The Upjohn Service Moves to St. Vincent’s Hospital
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Early Days
- Chapter 2 Washington Heights
- Chapter 3 Speyer School for Gifted Children
- Chapter 4 New York University at University Heights
- Chapter 5 To Each His Farthest Star–A Medical Student at Rochester: 1929–1934
- Chapter 6 Duke University Hospital and Its Medical School, 1934–1935
- Chapter 7 Yale Medical School, 1935–1936
- Chapter 8 Return to Duke, 1936-1937
- Chapter 9 You Can Go Home Again
- Chapter 10 My One and Only Wife
- Chapter 11 The Bronx Is the Graveyard for Specialists, 1937
- Chapter 12 The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1937 — The First of Its Kind
- Chapter 13 Pearl Harbor and World War II
- Chapter 14 Valley Forge General Hospital, 1942–1945
- Chapter 15 Tinian, 1945
- Chapter 16 Saipan, 1945–1946
- Chapter 17 Return to Columbia-Presbyterian, 1946
- Chapter 18 The Changing of the Guard at the Medical Center
- Chapter 19 An Internist-Diagnostician Rebuilds His Practice
- Chapter 20 The Upjohn Grand Rounds
- Chapter 21 The Iceman Cometh to Park Avenue
- Chapter 22 Songs My Patients Taught Me
- Chapter 23 Mr. J. Peter Grace, Chairman of W. R. Grace and Company
- Chapter 24 Birth of the Upjohn Gastrointestinal Service
- Chapter 25 Roosevelt Hospital, 1962–1965
- Chapter 26 Consultant and Physician to President Herbert C. Hoover
- Chapter 27 Problems at Roosevelt Hospital: The Bête Noir of Full Time
- Chapter 28 Internal Medicine as a Vocation (1897)
- Chapter 29 The Upjohn Service Moves to St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Chapter 30 Helicobacter Pylori and Peptic Ulcer: A Revolution in Gastroenterology
- Chapter 31 Plasmapheresis for Hepatic Coma at St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Epilogue
- Endmatter
Summary
The decision to leave Roosevelt Hospital was approved by Mrs. Stearns, and she continued to be very supportive despite the disappointment over the unpleasant experience we had been through. The search for a new location for the Upjohn Service considered a variety of options ranging from setting up of an independent Institute of Gastroenterology to less ambitious plans. We were committed to placing the unit in an academic setting with excellent teaching facilities. We looked at several hospitals and several medical schools that were interested in our proposal. While going through these negotiations, I received a call from Dr. William J. Grace, director of medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, who said he had learned I was leaving Roosevelt and would like to invite me to come to St. Vincent's as chief of gastroenterology. He came to see me in my office at 550 Park Avenue. We had a warm and productive session that he initiated by saying, “I’m not interested in the Upjohn money. I have come to see you because I would like you to take over the position of chief of gastroenterology.” When I asked him who held the position, he said he did, and went on to say that he was leaving gastroenterology for cardiology. I liked his approach and asked a number of relevant questions including the arrangement for office space, clinic space, and a research laboratory. He said that startup space would be made available for me and the future would depend upon my success in promoting the unit. We spoke about the university affiliation and he said his own academic appointment was with New York University School of Medicine, with which St. Vincent's had been affiliated for some years. He indicated that a significant appointment at the medical school could be arranged.
I believe that Dr. Louis M. (“Pete”) Rousselot, the dynamic master surgeon who was director of surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital, may have suggested to Dr. Grace that he try to persuade me to come to St. Vincent’s. Pete and I were old friends from Columbia-Presbyterian, where he had trained under Dr. Allen O. Whipple and was regarded as the best surgeon of his many pupils. Dr. Rousselot had, several years before, tried to attract me to St. Vincent's as chief of medicine but I turned him down.
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- The Life of the ClinicianThe Autobiography of Michael Lepore, pp. 400 - 416Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002